The Slippery Fish

Archives for Litsa Dremousis, 2003-2011. Current site: https://litsadremousis.com. Litsa Dremousis is the author of Altitude Sickness (Future Tense Books). Seattle Metropolitan Magazine named it one of the all-time "20 Books Every Seattleite Must Read". Her essay "After the Fire" was selected as one of the "Most Notable Essays 2011” by Best American Essays, and The Seattle Weekly named her one of "50 Women Who Rock Seattle". She is an essayist with The Washington Post.

Dear 2009:

Through the generosity and connections of one of my closest cousins...

You know the great thing about those who don't acknowledge illness or death?

Is it bad if you want to take a break from your...

Inching:

To everyone spending their first round of holidays...

Because nothing alleviates holiday stress like gently mocking dumbfucks:

I finished nine tenths of my holiday shopping before Thanksgiving because...

Because it's a fitting way to contrast the shortest day of the year and herald a new season:

It's inadvertently and somewhat mordantly hilarious that...

Re gay marriage and an oversimplified piece in the Huffington Post:

Attention, lunatics:

Because Facebook doesn't enact legislation or unseat amoral officials:

"Revoke Joe Lieberman's health insurance and gift it to someone not batshit" is the new group I've launched...

May your dreidl always spin!

Dear Mountains:

Please keep the climbers, living and dead; their loved ones; and the SAR crews in your thoughts, all:

"Good grief", indeed:

To ____:

Because kneejerk thinking on the left is every bit as pernicious and irritating as it is on the right: